We are observing the same behavior today.

> On 24 Feb 2026, at 19:10, Jarland Donnell via mailop <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Now that you mention it, some emails do seem to just not be getting through. 
> In the last 17 hours we've successfully delivered 46549 emails to Microsoft, 
> and we've given up on 3256. And I've noticed new language via support:
> 
> "The connection and throttling limitation against your IP
> 
> 136.175.108.47
> 136.175.108.64
> 136.175.108.0
> 136.175.108.29
> 136.175.108.89
> 136.175.108.130
> 136.175.108.148
> 136.175.108.84
> 
> has been set to a more appropriate level based on your reputation."
> 
> I'm debating adding a /24 to our outbound to see if that clears up the last 
> stretch, as it seems that either this is a new throttling system or they're 
> leaning more heavily on an older one than they were just 48 hours ago. If I 
> go through with it, I'll keep you guys posted on whether or not it clears 
> things up.
> 
> On 2026-02-24 10:13, Paul Smith* via mailop wrote:
>> On 24/02/2026 12:45, Gellner, Oliver via mailop wrote:
>>> We receive the same error messages for all servers since 2026-02-23 18:45 
>>> UTC. It's unlikely that Microsoft suddenly received spam from all IP 
>>> addresses of all kind of unrelated organizations yesterday evening. 
>>> Probably some algorithm went nuts there.
>> I thought we were being *rate limited*, but we're not, nothing at all is 
>> going out to outlook.com <http://outlook.com/>, hotmail.com 
>> <http://hotmail.com/>, etc. Mail to business M365 is going out fine.
>> The last one we sent successfully was at 16:42 UTC yesterday
>>  hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com 
>> <http://hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com/> | 2026-02-23 
>> 18:42:59.270101+00
>>  eur.olc.protection.outlook.com <http://eur.olc.protection.outlook.com/>     
>>              | 2026-02-23 18:15:08.699069+00
>>  hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com 
>> <http://hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com/> | 2026-02-23 
>> 18:00:08.615426+00
>>  hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com 
>> <http://hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com/> | 2026-02-23 
>> 17:59:20.363448+00
>>  eur.olc.protection.outlook.com <http://eur.olc.protection.outlook.com/>     
>>              | 2026-02-23 17:45:34.862099+00
>>  hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com 
>> <http://hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com/> | 2026-02-23 
>> 17:45:09.072445+00
>>  outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com 
>> <http://outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com/> | 2026-02-23 
>> 17:45:05.513997+00
>>  eur.olc.protection.outlook.com <http://eur.olc.protection.outlook.com/>     
>>              | 2026-02-23 17:39:01.241583+00
>>  outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com 
>> <http://outlook-com.olc.protection.outlook.com/> | 2026-02-23 
>> 17:37:07.033491+00
>>  hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com 
>> <http://hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com/> | 2026-02-23 
>> 17:30:14.199864+00
>>  eur.olc.protection.outlook.com <http://eur.olc.protection.outlook.com/>     
>>              | 2026-02-23 17:30:09.456287+00
>> I've sent support messages to Microsoft (via https://olcsupport.office.com/ 
>> ), but we get an automated response saying 'there's no reason you can't send 
>> mail to Outlook.com <http://outlook.com/>'. I've sent a follow up email 
>> message to hopefully get a human response, but no replies at all yet
>> Paul
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